On 3 Feb 2014, at 18:28, Chuck Guzis <cclist at
sydex.com> wrote:
On 02/03/2014 09:32 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
On 3 February 2014 14:54, Jules Richardson
<jules.richardson99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now that I seem to finally have a working XT clone, does anyone
> have suggestions for interesting (and available!) contemporary
> software to run on it? It'd be nice to load it up with a few games
> and productivity apps of the era.
There was one huge reason that professionals bought PCs and
PC-XTs--Lotus 1-2-3. When IBM brought out the PS/2 line, they resorted
to using a copy-protection-crack utility to get it onto a 3.5"
floppy--and they admitted it. That's how important 1-2-3 was. 1-2-3 was behind
EMS/LIM and was the primary motive for the Intel Aboveboard cards.
Word Perfect was probably the single dominant WP package back then also.
There were lots of other non-x86 personal computer systems that were much cheaper with
good graphics to run games than the 5160.
--Chuck
I have simple WP and spreadsheet package that runs on early machines (I have it
running on an NEC V40 based Olivetti PC1 Prodest). The package is called "First
Choice"